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Inoculating Cavendish bananas with an avirulent Fusarium strain might protect them against devastation by Panama disease

09.21.22 | PLOS

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Disease development on Cavendish ‘Grand Naine’ with several different species of Fusarium.
(A-G): External and internal symptoms at six weeks after single inoculations with (A) Fusarium odoratissimum TR4, (B) F. oxysporum f. sp. melongenae, (C) F. oxysporum f. sp. cepae, (D) F. oxysporum f. sp. lycopersici, (E) F. oxysporum f. sp. gladioli, (F) F. oxysporum f. sp. cubense R1, and (G) F. tardichlamydosporum R2. (H-N): External and internal symptoms at six weeks after primed inoculations as follows (H) First inoculation with TR4 followed by challenging with R1 and (I-N) first inoculatio Credit: García-Bastidas et al., 2022, PLOS ONE, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Inoculating Cavendish bananas with an avirulent Fusarium strain might protect them against devastation by Panama disease

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Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0273335

Article Title: Induced resistance to Fusarium wilt of banana caused by Tropical Race 4 in Cavendish cv Grand Naine bananas after challenging with avirulent Fusarium spp.

Author Countries: The Netherlands, Colombia

Funding: This research is funded by the WUR-Interdisciplinary Research and Education Fund (INREF), comprising private and public partners, see www.fusariumwilt.org. Banana research at WUR is supported by the Dutch Dioraphte Foundation ( https://www.dioraphte.nl ) endowed chair in Tropical Phytopathology of GHJK at the WUR-Laboratory of Phytopathology. RA was funded by the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Sede Medellín ( https://medellin.unal.edu.co ). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

PLOS ONE

10.1371/journal.pone.0273335

Induced resistance to Fusarium wilt of banana caused by Tropical Race 4 in Cavendish cv Grand Naine bananas after challenging with avirulent Fusarium spp.

21-Sep-2022

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Keywords

Plant Development Plant Pathology Plant Sciences Vaccine Research

Article Information

Journal
PLOS ONE
DOI
10.1371/journal.pone.0273335
Article Publication Date
2022-09-21
Article Title
Induced resistance to Fusarium wilt of banana caused by Tropical Race 4 in Cavendish cv Grand Naine bananas after challenging with avirulent Fusarium spp.
COI Statement
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Contact Information

Hanna Abdallah
PLOS
onepress@plos.org

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PLOS. (2022, September 21). Inoculating Cavendish bananas with an avirulent Fusarium strain might protect them against devastation by Panama disease. Brightsurf News. https://www.brightsurf.com/news/1WRKNZWL/inoculating-cavendish-bananas-with-an-avirulent-fusarium-strain-might-protect-them-against-devastation-by-panama-disease.html
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"Inoculating Cavendish bananas with an avirulent Fusarium strain might protect them against devastation by Panama disease." Brightsurf News, Sep. 21 2022, https://www.brightsurf.com/news/1WRKNZWL/inoculating-cavendish-bananas-with-an-avirulent-fusarium-strain-might-protect-them-against-devastation-by-panama-disease.html.